1. Introduction: goals and methods of the corpus-based approach -- Pt. I. Investigating the use of language features. 2. Lexicography. 3. Grammar. 4. Lexico-grammar. 5. The study of discourse characteristics -- Pt. II. Investigating the characteristics of varieties. 6. Register variation and English for Specific Purposes. 7. Language acquisition and development. 8. Historical and stylistic investigations -- Pt. III. Summing up and looking ahead. 9. Conclusion -- Pt. IV. Methodology boxes. 1. Issues in corpus design. 2. Issues in diachronic corpus design. 3. Concordancing packages versus programming for corpus analysis. 4. Characteristics of tagged corpora. 5. The process of tagging. 6. Norming frequency counts. 7. Statistical measures of lexical associations. 8. The unit of analysis in corpus-based studies. 9. Significance tests and the reporting of statistics. 10. Factor loadings and dimension scores -- App. Commercially available corpora and analytical tools
Notes
"Commercially available corpora and analytical tools [and Internet on-line sources]": p. 281-287
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-295) and index
